Take a sneak peak inside the Spencer Doll And Toy Museum.

View the attached video and take a sneak peak inside the Spencer Doll And Toy Museum. You'll be amazed at the variety of antique and vintage dolls, toys, trains and trucks!

Make time for a visit. We'll reopen on January 15, 2014 with new exhibits. Happy New Year!

Inspiring a Helping Hand

In 1998 Lynda Pracht traveled to Nicaragua on a sponsored Learning Centers Mission. Inspired by the enthusiasm and talented embroidery and desigh skills of the Nicaraguan women, she found a nich market in the doll dresses trade. Lynda and her volunteers teach sewing and other skills to the women.

Nicaragua women are paid for each dress that they make. This provides income to the home, which may be the only income at all. The China Nica Doll Dresses program allows women to stay in their community, learn a skill, earn an income and live with dignity.

This program can be an inspiration to all.

New Exhibits

With the introduction in 1908 of Schoenhut's Farmer and Milkmaid, a youngster had all the elements of a working farm. Many of the animals made by Schoenhut are seen on a farm: The cow, pig, goat, sheep, donkey, goose, horse, and dog. This wonderful Farmer exhibit is now on display at the Spencer Doll and Toy Museum.

Looking forward to you coming to visit!

Haunted Trolley Ride

Looking for something to do this weekend. Come out to enjoy a bit of family fun! This Friday and Saturday at 7 pm to join Spencer with a Haunted Trolley ride in celebration of Halloween. The cost for the trolley ride is $12 for adults and $8 for students.This experience includes a tour of the Spencer Doll and Toy Museum and a trolley ride through Spencer while being told spooky stories.

Reservations are recommended. Call 704-762-9359 First come, first serve.

We look forward to seeing you.

Halloween is on its way!

The Spencer Doll and Toy Museum has a wonderful window display for Halloween created by interior decorator Ms. Nancy Jo Fox., who is a on the board here at the museum.
The display features skeletons and spooky Halloween lights to put you in the Halloween spirit.
It is decorated in the traditional colors of Halloween, black and orange.

We are currently displaying an All Things Royal exhibit.
This beautiful display features royal dolls, including Princess Diana.
In side the display is also a letter from the Queen.

Please come and see this unique exhibit.

October is Doll House and Miniature Month. Let's celebrate!

If you like miniatures you'll certainly want to come by and see the miniature display set up by The Mini Reflections Miniature Club of Mooresville, NC. This past Saturday two members set up a wonderful and varied display of miniatures.

The Mini Reflections Miniature Club is an organization of people in the area of Mooresville, Statesville, Salisbury, Troutman, and Lincolnton who are interested in building and collecting miniatures and learning about miniatures. Mini Reflections is one of the newer clubs chartered by the National Association of Miniature Enthusiasts (NAME) as Club 789. 


A miniature is a small-scale reproduction, or a small variation. Unfortunately miniatures aren't governed by any size rule, unless it is a scale size rule. As a hobby, miniatures can be almost anything you want, from reality to fantasy, past, present, future, historically accurate, expensive or hand-made. Creating miniatures is a hobby that everyone can participate in.

Lynn and Debbie working on the Log Cabin they raffled

off to raise funds for The Victory Junction Gang.

Who has the most famous Doll House in the world? 

In the early 1920s, an extraordinary doll's house was created for Queen Mary, the wife of King George V. Queen Mary's Dolls' House is one of the most famous.

The idea for building it originally came from the Queen's cousin, Princess Marie Louise, who discussed her idea with one of the top architects of the time, Sir Edwin Lutyens at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1921. Sir Edwin agreed to construct the dolls' house and began preparations.

Princess Marie Louise had many connections in the arts and arranged for the top artists and craftsmen of the time to contribute their special abilities to the house. As a result, the dolls' house has an amazing collection of miniature items that actually work. It even has running water through its tiny pipes. It was created as a gift to Queen Mary from the people, and to serve as a historical document on how a royal family might have lived during that period in England.

The dolls' house was put on display to raise funds for the Queen's charities. It was originally exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924–1925, and is now on display in Windsor Castle, at Windsor, Berkshire, England, as a tourist attraction, especially to people with an interest in miniature houses and furniture.

It was made to a scale of 1:12 (one inch to one foot), is over three feet tall, and contains models of products of well-known companies of the time.

 The displays from the Mini Reflections Miniatures Club will be on exhibit through the end of October.  Please come by and see them. You'll be amazed at the detail. You'll also sure to enjoy the lovely doll house donated to the museum from the Krapf family. 

(Information and pictures above on Queen Mary's Doll House copied from Wikipedia. For more information visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Mary's_Dolls'_House.)